Grammar I Flashcards
Content words=
SPECIFIC concrete meaning
‘open’ class (accepts new members)
Function words=
ABSTRACT general meaning
‘closed’ class (no new members)
Word classes that are CONTENT words (4)
Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs
Word classes that are FUNCTION words (5)
Prepositions, conjunctions, auxiliaries, determiners, particles
analysis of word classes involves ____________ & ______________
morphology (different forms a word can take), distribution (structural context a word occurs in)
As well as actions, what can verbs be? (3)
states, processes, positions
What can adverbs modify? (4)
V, adj, other adverbs & sentences
Prepositions: what? where found?, what can be?= (2)
> relationships linked to nouns
can be location, time, possession, association etc
found before N linked to
temporal adverbs e.g.=(3)
tell you things related to time
(where, now ,then)
manner adverbs, eg.=(2)
quickly, carefully
degree adverbs=
describe ‘how much’ we do something
>too, very, enough, quite
possessive determiners
function word used in front of a noun to express possession or belonging
e.g. my, your, his, her, its, our, their
copular verbs & e.g.
> can occur in both main & subordinate clause so ‘main verbs’
is, am, are, was ,were etc
linking adverb= & e.g.
> connects independent clauses by relating their meaning to one another
also, however, instead, thus, still, then, etc
